Research News

Two Georgetown faculty members - Joanna Lewis and Vicki Arroyo – will speak in Paris alongside events of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference. The talks began today and run through Dec. 11.

A new book edited by two Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) forensic psychiatrists shows that people with serious mental illness rarely commit gun violence against other people and two-thirds of firearm deaths are suicides.

Matthew Quallen (SFS’16) plans to use his recently awarded Marshall Scholarship to study the concept of the "animalization" of people throughout history so he may deepen his understanding of how people become and remain marginalized.

A report from Georgetown's Center for Children and Families shows that the rate of uninsured children dropped to a historic low of 6 percent following implementation of the Affordable Care Act in 2014.

University professor Nancy Sherman says America’s engagement with veterans should go far beyond the standard “thank you for your service,” because of the “moral injury” experienced by the more than 2.6 million who have returned home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Georgetown risk analysis experts Robin Dillon and Catherine Tinsley find that large U.S. commercial airlines may be lulled into a false confidence when they interpret averted collisions and other near-misses as proof that their safety systems are satisfactory.